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F. C. GUDEBROD.

GIGAR PERFORATOR. No. 365,303; Patented June 21, 1887:

W awn UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRED o. GUDEBROD, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

CIGAR-,PERFORATOR.

EZPEC'IFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No- 365.303, dated June 1. 18

Application fi'ed March 7, 1887.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRED O. GUDEBROD, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Oigar-Perforators, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to improvements in the construction of that style of cigar-perforating devices in the use of which the cigartip is inserted in a socketed receiver, movable in a casing, in which are arranged a number of converging knives or prickers, which,when

the receiver is pressed down, enter the socket and slit or perforate the cigar tip laterally without clipping it.

My invention has principally for its object to simplify the construction and thereby cheapen the manufacture, to provide for the ready detachability .of parts, and to render the device more effective in operation; and to this end the invention consists in certain novel features of construction, hereinafter fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings,forming part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

' tip, and with a wide annular top flange, E, to

form a broad bearing for the hand. The carrier B is formed with a bottom annular recess, F, surrounding the lower end of the socket D,

I and with lateral slots G, opening into the socket,

into which slots project the converging perforating-knives O, which, when the receiver B is pressed down, are borne down upon by the shoulders H at the outer ends of the slots and brought to a meeting at the center of the socket, as indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 1. A vertical guide-rod, I, formed integrally with the socket D, projects downward from the lower end of the same, and its lower end passes Serial No. 229,98l. (No model.)

For convenience in removing the receiver B from the casing, I form the guide'rod I in two sections united by a screw-joint, L, the lower end of the lower section being formed with a head, M, which serves as a stop to limit the upward movement of the receiver B. When pressed downward, the receiver is returned to its normal position by a coiled spring, N, encircling the guide rod I, and interposed between the guide K and the lower end of the socket D.

In order that the slots G for the knives may be formed in the receiver ata small cost, I make the receiver by casting in two sections, B and B (Shown in detail in Figs. 3 and 4.) The section B constitutes the outer main portion of the receiver, comprises the annular flange E, shoulders H, and the annular recess F, and is formed with the central cylindrical recess, P, the annular shoulder at the upper end of which forms the upper part of the receiving-socket D. The section B, comprising the upper section of the guide-rod I and the lower portion of the socket D, is formed with the cylindrical head Q, in which said lower portion of the socket is formed, and which is of the same diameter as the recess P in the section B.

' In the head Q the vertical slots G for the knives may be readily cut or formed in theupper end by milling or casting them, as shown. The head is then driven tightly into the recess P in the section B", thereby forming the complete receiver, the ends of the slots G being concealed by the shoulder-forming the poses, by tapping on their lower ends.

In order that the knives 0 may have the IOC requisite strength and rigidity, I make them of extreme width, and that too long a slit may not be formed in the eigar-tip thereby I cut away the inner portion of the sharpened end edges, as shown clearly in the'drawings. The sharpened end edges are inclined at such an angle with the side edges that when the said end edges of the several knives are brought to a meeting at the center of the socket they cut slits which meet at the center of the cigartip operated upon, and are of full width throughout, thereby insuring the easy drawing of the cigar.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new,and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. As an improvement in the class of cigarperforators described, the sliding socketed receiver B,eonstructed in two sections, B and 13*, the inner section, B, being cast with its portion of the central socket, D, with a portion of the central guide-rod, I, and having the knifeguiding slots G extending inward from its end, and the outer section, 13', east with the bearing-flange E, and the central recess, I, in which the inner section is fitted, as and for the purpose set forth.

2. As an improvement in the class of devices described, the receiver guiderod I, constructed in two sections connected by a screw or other detachable joint, the upper section being formed integrally with a part of the receiver and the lower section formed with a head, M. to serve as a stop for the receiver,as and for the purpose set forth.

3. The combination, in a cigar-perforator, of the hollow cylindrical easing A, the vertically-apertnred lugs T, projecting inward from the interior of the said casing, headed pins S, received in the apertures of said lugs, and the perforating-knives O, pivoted to the heads It of said pins, substantially as shown and described.

FRED O. GUDEBROD.

Witnesses:

O. SEDGwIeK, O. L. BURGER 

